Re: Samba and UserAdmin question

1999-07-22 Thread Gareth
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Jure wrote: > I wonder if somene managed to configure Samba 1.9.18 to work with NT4.0 SP4? >I have some problems beacuse i can login using Win 2000, but cant with > NT4.0. The network at work was running NT4.0 sp4 with SAMBA 1.9.18 and it was working fine. There are abou

Re: Lynx Problems

1999-07-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Doug" == Doug Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Doug> a mammoth job since I'm not aware of any way to find files with html Doug> extensioins other than open every directory one by one to see whats in it. I find /usr/doc/ -name "*.html" locate .html Doug> don't know whether or not its doing

Re: apt-get: upgrade one package to particular version?

1999-07-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Carl" == Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> apt-get --install icewm >> >> should be all you need to do. Carl> No, actually it isn't, since that would install the version in Carl> *stable*. That's what I have installed now. What I'd like to Carl> do is install the version in *unstable

Buddha's Dselect' way

1999-07-22 Thread altag
I get light from Buddha's 're:Why so much hate' ,really. Clearity in summarizing this debate , as he says 'no newer in this matter from years.' Obviously i can only take act of his strong- experience in Debian problems. But this , in my opinion, doesn't justify keeping Deselect as it is, without

Re: dselect error message

1999-07-22 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 22 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "dselect error message" > I originally installed the base debian packages from cd and when > everything seemed ok I connected via the apt option to the default serv > er (debian.org I think) in order to get Netscape amongst other things. > However dselect

Re: exmh installation

1999-07-22 Thread Buddha Buck
> OK this is a new user question... but I checked the man pages, the docs and > the Web pages on this issue and came up dry. > > According to the manual/web pages on exmh, once I have all the proper > software installed (I do) I can run > wish -f exmh.install > > according to the README.exm

Dselect 'project'(RE: the dselect debate)

1999-07-22 Thread altag
you wrote: > I'm new to both Linux in general and the debian distribution > specifically. I found that dselect, though awkward at first, was rather > easy to use and quite powerful. That's not to say that the interface > couldn't be improved somewhat. Is work on dselect ongoing, and is

Dselect 'project'(RE: the dselect debate)

1999-07-22 Thread altag
you wrote: > I'm new to both Linux in general and the debian distribution > specifically. I found that dselect, though awkward at first, was rather > easy to use and quite powerful. That's not to say that the interface > couldn't be improved somewhat. Is work on dselect ongoing, and is

exmh installation

1999-07-22 Thread Mike Lieberman
OK this is a new user question... but I checked the man pages, the docs and the Web pages on this issue and came up dry. According to the manual/web pages on exmh, once I have all the proper software installed (I do) I can run wish -f exmh.install according to the README.exmh I am to type

Re: Lynx Problems

1999-07-22 Thread Doug Young
> try: > STARTFILE:file://localhost/usr/doc/lynx/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html > in /etc/lynx.cfg > > This is the default locatuion for the lynx help file. > > or make this file to point lynx at: > <--cut here--> > > > > This is a dummy page > > > Lynx should be displaying this page I hope > >

Re: Good HTML editor for debian Linux?

1999-07-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Carl" == Carl Mummert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Carl> What I still haven't found is the equivilent of 'indent' for Carl> html files, that will neaten up my code, single-case my Carl> tags,etc. Maybe this from unstable: Package: tidy Priority: optional Section: web Maintainer: Johnie Ingram

Re: apt-get: upgrade one package to particular version?

1999-07-22 Thread Pollywog
On 22-Jul-99 Carl Fink wrote: >> apt-get --install icewm >> >> should be all you need to do. > > No, actually it isn't, since that would install the version in > *stable*. That's what I have installed now. What I'd like to do is > install the version in *unstable*, without changing all my othe

Re: SupraExpress Modem problems

1999-07-22 Thread Brad
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, David Karlin wrote: > > > > Out of curiousity, did you properly set up the modem with isapnptools, > > > > and > > > > then use setserial to set the irq, port, and everything? > > > > > > Nope. I disabled PNP and set everything with the jumpers as described > > > in appendi

Re: apt-get: upgrade one package to particular version?

1999-07-22 Thread Carl Fink
> apt-get --install icewm > > should be all you need to do. No, actually it isn't, since that would install the version in *stable*. That's what I have installed now. What I'd like to do is install the version in *unstable*, without changing all my other packages to the unstable version. -- Ca

Re: Sound Blaster Live

1999-07-22 Thread Craig Hancock
You got the sblive drivers to work Chris Carlson wrote: > I am pretty happy with the new kernel modules for the live, however I am > still having problems running RealPlayer G2 and Civ III CTP. Anyone here > having any luck with these? > > Thanks > -Chris > > ---

Re: cron, crontab, etc. [CORRECTION]

1999-07-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: cron, crontab, etc. [CORRECTION] Date: Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 02:49:10PM -0300 In reply to:Daniel Ruoso Quoting Daniel Ruoso([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > actually the most eficient will be: > > 0 */6 * * * etc... > > Daniel Ruoso You right, of course, Daniel.

dselect error message

1999-07-22 Thread paul . walton
I originally installed the base debian packages from cd and when everything seemed ok I connected via the apt option to the default serv er (debian.org I think) in order to get Netscape amongst other things. However dselect stops at the install stage telling me that /var/cache/apt/archives/ is full

Re: CRON (another question)

1999-07-22 Thread Carl Mummert
>Does anybody knows if there is a way to "append" (just put at last place >without entering any editor) a schedule to crontab ON DEBIAN ONLY: bash$ CRONTAB_NOHEADER=Y (crontab -l ; echo "new crontab line here") | crontab - should do the trick.The CRONTAB_NOHEADER is a debian change fro

RE: CRON (another question)

1999-07-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Jul-99 Daniel Ruoso wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody knows if there is a way to "append" (just put at last place > without entering any editor) a schedule to crontab > > thanks.. > echo "52 61 * * roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly" >> /etc/cr

Re: slrn - posting to newsgroup rejected

1999-07-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 05:21:49PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 02:36:05PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > > I hope somebody can help me with this one: Why do my messages posted to a > > > newsgroup from slrn land up in /var/spool/s

CRON (another question)

1999-07-22 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Hi, Does anybody knows if there is a way to "append" (just put at last place without entering any editor) a schedule to crontab thanks.. ruoso

Re: Occasional Error

1999-07-22 Thread Michael Merten
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 12:30:22PM -0600, Cheshire wrote: > Nothing major, but here's what happening and I don't really know why. > > I run a script from a vt to connect to the internet, and every once in a > while I get something like this come up on that terminal: > Failed to open configuratio

NOT DEBIAN SPECIFIC: Full HD capacity unrecognized

1999-07-22 Thread David Teague
Hi folks: My apology for this nonDebian question. Please send your answer (and any flames) directly to me. My wife's computer is older machine to which I recently installed a BMI (Belfort Memory International) 8GB drive. That drive is really inexpensive, $140 including tax and shipping. The down

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-22 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 22 Jul, Lee Elliott wrote about "Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists" > On 21-Jul-99, you wrote: > > An observation from this Newbie may be related: I'm also on the Real3D list, > which uses MajorDomo, and the postings I get from that list come with the > 'Reply To' set to the mai

Re: Test2

1999-07-22 Thread Patrick Kirk
Enough - open a hotmail account for your tests please. - Original Message - From: Martin Lexa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, 22 July 1999 21:24 Subject: Test2 > > Testing, ... > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >

Re: slrn - posting to newsgroup rejected

1999-07-22 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 02:36:05PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > > I hope somebody can help me with this one: Why do my messages posted to a > > newsgroup from slrn land up in /var/spool/slrnpull/out.going/rejected? > > Without seeing any error messages

Re: Warm LOADLIN boot hangs after syslogd

1999-07-22 Thread Craig Hancock
in your autoexec.bat file our you using MEM=the meory thst you use Dan Halbert wrote: > I have a new dual-boot Win98SE and an up-to-date slink system with > 2.0.36, running on an Abit LX6. Win98 and Linux share a single disk. > > If I use LOADLIN, invoked from Win98, to boot the system, then Lin

Test2

1999-07-22 Thread Martin Lexa
Testing, ...

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-22 Thread Lee Elliott
On 21-Jul-99, you wrote: An observation from this Newbie may be related: I'm also on the Real3D list, which uses MajorDomo, and the postings I get from that list come with the 'Reply To' set to the mailing list whereas the postings from Debian User arrive with 'Reply To' set to the sender. Wh

Re: Wordperfect and LaserJet 6L

1999-07-22 Thread Ajit Krishnan
Hi, I must say that this is the most elegant solution that I've seen so far. Easy & simple. I never even realized there was a "passthru postscript" driver... makes sense when you think about it though...if you can save it as postscript, then its probably [almost] the identical algorithm/drive

Test

1999-07-22 Thread Martin Lexa
Please ignore.

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Support

1999-07-22 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. For those volunteering to work on various "FAQ" documents. Try to > get your work into the true Debian FAQ's and not some strange offshoot > FAQ only available on the web somewhere. It's going to make Debian that > much better and many more copies of

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

1999-07-22 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Michael Stenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 09:32:34AM +1000, Doug Young wrote: >> Will someone PLEASE get the message that the present >> format of MAN, HOWTO, and other stuff is NOT intelligible >> to the majority of newbies, and that is why there are so many >> post

Keyboard timed out

1999-07-22 Thread Nathaniel Couper-Noles
I installed a switch to coordinate two debian linux machines (i386) and a mac sharing a monitor. After rebooting and logging in, I switched away from and then returned to one of the linux machines, whereupon it declared "Keyboard timed out" twice, and the keyboard stopped responding, although the

Re: Occasional Error

1999-07-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Occasional Error Date: Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 12:30:22PM -0600 In reply to:Cheshire Quoting Cheshire([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > far as I can tell, it isn't running. At least I haven't gone out of my > way to run it, and ps isn't identifying an exim operation. I don't find > any

Re: Netscape Directory Server

1999-07-22 Thread Craig Hancock
Dis you get it to work o a potato box just curious "C. R. Oldham" wrote: > Craig Hancock wrote: > > > Has anyone ever used Netscape Directory Server I am trying to install > > it but everytime I try I get this error setup.inf file not found it is a > > binary that I am running I am not sure what

Re: Problems with Adaptec 2940 U2W

1999-07-22 Thread Ming Poon
We changed all of our systems back to a AHA2940 UW. I am in the process of finding a new system with an AHA2940 U2W and repeating the excerise again. Once I locate the system and try it out, I will update you all again. Thanks. Gareth wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Ming Poon wrote: > > I am just

Re: A problem:SIOCADDRT :Invalid argument

1999-07-22 Thread Paul Miller
solar wrote: > > Hello: > When booting ,my hammer box always show : > Mounting local file systems... > /dev/hda3 on /home type ext2 (rw) > /dev/hda4 on /tmp type ext2 (rw) > SIOCADDRT:Invalid argument (problem :() Booting into kern

Re: HELP: Ethercard Not Detected at Boot

1999-07-22 Thread Paul Miller
Albert Hurd wrote: > > I have installed Debian 2.0 on a second drive, but kept Debian 1.3.1 > while I work out the bugs. On 1.3.1, my ethernet card(3com 509c) works > fine. I don't remember if I had to recompile the kernel to get it to > work or not. In 2.0, the card is not acknowledged at boot.

Re: Netscape Directory Server

1999-07-22 Thread C. R. Oldham
Craig Hancock wrote: > Has anyone ever used Netscape Directory Server I am trying to install > it but everytime I try I get this error setup.inf file not found it is a > binary that I am running I am not sure what kernel it was complied with > nor if it was complied with the new glibc but if an

Re: Occasional Error

1999-07-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 12:30:22PM -0600, Cheshire wrote: > Failed to open configuration file /etc/exim.conf > Now I can just hit a key and continue like normal, but I just don't know > why that's happening in the first place. I have exim installed, but as > far as I can tell, it isn't running. A

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Steve" == Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steve> I don't think people reply to any ol' message to create a new Steve> message, but are replying to a message and were courtious Steve> enough to change the subject and now someone is bitching about Steve> it. No, this is usually not the c

Re: Installing X on Compaq XE 466

1999-07-22 Thread Lee Elliott
On 21-Jul-99, you wrote: The .pdf doc from http://www.compaq.com/support/techpubs/qrg/deskproXE.html might help, if you haven't already got it. LeeE > Greetings all you fine folks! > I know this might be a little offtopic, but it's vital to me: > I need the setup param's for the on-board video

Re: music notation software for Linux

1999-07-22 Thread Daniel Ruoso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > That would be rosegarden, not soundgarden. Sorry, i got confused with the band > > There is a Debian Package, named SoundGarden you can make midi > > files, and you write directly on the pariture > > --- > Wim Kerkhoff > [EMAIL

Netscape Directory Server

1999-07-22 Thread Craig Hancock
Has anyone ever used Netscape Directory Server I am trying to install it but everytime I try I get this error setup.inf file not found it is a binary that I am running I am not sure what kernel it was complied with nor if it was complied with the new glibc but if anyone has expiernced anythingsimi

Occasional Error

1999-07-22 Thread Cheshire
Nothing major, but here's what happening and I don't really know why. I run a script from a vt to connect to the internet, and every once in a while I get something like this come up on that terminal: Failed to open configuration file /etc/exim.conf Now I can just hit a key and continue like no

Re: music notation software for Linux

1999-07-22 Thread wim
That would be rosegarden, not soundgarden. >> Does anyone know of any decen music notation software for Linux??? I'm >> looking for something with a good GUI and that is easy to learn. Any >> suggestions are appreciated!!! > There is a Debian Package, named SoundGarden you can make midi > f

Re: music notation software for Linux

1999-07-22 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Benjamin E Frame wrote: > > Does anyone know of any decen music notation software for Linux??? I'm > looking for something with a good GUI and that is easy to learn. Any > suggestions are appreciated!!! > > Ben > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null There is

Re: cron, crontab, etc. [CORRECTION]

1999-07-22 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: Re: cron, crontab, etc. > Date: Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 10:12:39AM -0400 > > In reply to:Wayne Topa > > Quoting Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Subject: cron, crontab, etc. > > Date: Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 01:07:09PM +0100 > > > > In r

RE: [Fwd: Lynx Problems]

1999-07-22 Thread David Karlin
> You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding. A good PPP (or other > network) connection is necessary for any browser to work. No browser > can work independently of that, or debug your connection for you. So > what's the knock on lynx if it didn't work when you didn't have the > connection

Re: Latest gnome debs for SLINK?

1999-07-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 08:24:07AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Where can I find the latest slink gnome debs? The one I last used doesn't > seem to be there any more: They're on the GNOME FTP site. Look at the installation instructions for Debian on the GNOME web site - there are loads of mir

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists Date: Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 09:30:20AM -0500 In reply to:Keith G. Murphy Quoting Keith G. Murphy([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've also noticed that Netscape (which I use) never sets 'In-Reply-To:' > at all; it only sets 'References:'.

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-22 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 09:21:17 -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: >I think what he's saying, Wayne, is that he's doing a reply instead of >generating a new message so he won't have to remember the list address >or put it in his address book. "Trying" would

Re: Wordperfect and LaserJet 6L

1999-07-22 Thread Carl Mummert
>> One possibility is that wordperfect is printing the command >> 'switch to postscript mode' before it begins the postscript >> output; some of the drivers for HP 4000 printers do this >> (two lines of pjl, 400+ lines of psotscript, 2 lines of pjl). >> If this is the case, you can write a small fi

Re: Diald auth problem & documentation

1999-07-22 Thread Bill Leach
The reason that you should not remove the "auth" option in the ppp/options file is that any and every upgrade will overwrite your changes. The "proper" location for the "noauth" entry is in the /etc/ppp/peers/ provider (or whatever name you are using for the particular provider with whom you are t

Re: Apache and user cgi scripts

1999-07-22 Thread Thiem, Philip
argh!! Don't do that.. :-) If it needs wwwroot user rights just put it in the real cgi-bin directory/subdirectory. If it doesn't and then if you need still run it from install the cgiwrap package. It will run with that user's rights as http://www.whatever.com/cgi-bin/user/script. I think this p

RE: Microphone input in X.

1999-07-22 Thread Ted Harding
On 22-Jul-99 Person, Roderick wrote: > Does anyone know, is there a /dev/mic or a module that needs to be > loaded to get a mic input to work. I have a Sound Blaster 16 PCI it > works in everyother way but not mic input. Come to thing of it I > haven't tried the line so I don't know if that work

reiserfs

1999-07-22 Thread O.l.i.v.e.r T.h.u.n.s
Is anyone using reiserfs? Are there debs available?

Re: Wordperfect and LaserJet 6L

1999-07-22 Thread Ajit Krishnan
Carl Mummert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Wordperfect is attempting to print some PJL commands, and the filter > is killing them. aah, i see what you're saying... > One possibility is that wordperfect is printing the command > 'switch to postscript mode' before it begins the postscript > output;

.no.spam email addresses

1999-07-22 Thread Carl Mummert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^^ If you are going to do this, PLEASE say so in the body of the message. My reply bounced! I do not look over the email addresses wwhen I reply to a message, I just type 'repl', then edit, then type 'send'. If I were in a less pati

Re: Wordperfect and LaserJet 6L

1999-07-22 Thread Carl Mummert
Wordperfect is attempting to print some PJL commands, and the filter is killing them. One possibility is that wordperfect is printing the command 'switch to postscript mode' before it begins the postscript output; some of the drivers for HP 4000 printers do this (two lines of pjl, 400+ lines of p

Re: Relaying from a remote machine with exim

1999-07-22 Thread Patrick Kirk
Oh, the shame of it. I work for the ISP and have just discovered that they haven't set reverse DNS up properly:-) Thanks for pointing out the cause of the problem. I'll kick some butt and get things fixed. Patrick

Re: Good HTML editor for debian Linux?

1999-07-22 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Wed Jul 21, 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 15:47:02- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I would not mind something that could: > >1. Gives color coding > >2. Be good for perl AND html AND cgi AND javascript (I doubt I'll get all 4) > >3. Let me save to a web server. > >4. The only

Wordperfect and LaserJet 6L

1999-07-22 Thread Ajit Krishnan
Hi, I'm currently running slink with the 2.2.x kernels. I'm having a problem printing with wordperfect. My HP LaserJet 6L is setup using the magicfilter for the HP 4L, and it works flawlessly. I can print .ps files, .txt files etc. From wordperfect, I can save the file as a post script file,

Re: PGP

1999-07-22 Thread Michael Stenner
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 11:03:53AM -0400, Aaron Faby wrote: > This may not be the appropriate place to ask, but does > anyone know where I can get PGP Key? I'm not sure what you mean. Do you know how pgp works? (roughly) If you wnat to send encrypted mail to people, you need their keys, which y

BBEdit parallels (was Re: Good HTML editor for debian Linux?)

1999-07-22 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
> Is there anything Linux-friendly with anything approaching the feature > set of the program that I am used to, BBEdit on the Power Macintosh... BBEdit is just about the best text editor for the Macintosh, at least it was about 2 years ago. IMO, it's best strength was that you can use real regul

Re: Something like M$ Outlook

1999-07-22 Thread John Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > StarOffice has many great features. What I couldn't quite figure out is the > addressbook/contact management. Is the End User expected to set the > tables/queries/etc up himself? Seems really, really strange to me. _ I

Re: [Fwd: Lynx Problems]

1999-07-22 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Doug Young wrote: > > Well whatever the cause of my Lynx problems they are finished now > I've uninstalled the thing and hope never to hear of it again. > > I eventually located an extremely well written document titled > "How to Hook up PPP in Linux" by W.G.Unruh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > that

Microphone input in X.

1999-07-22 Thread Person, Roderick
Does anyone know, is there a /dev/mic or a module that needs to be loaded to get a mic input to work. I have a Sound Blaster 16 PCI it works in everyother way but not mic input. Come to thing of it I haven't tried the line so I don't know if that works. Roderick P. Person Programmer I CCBH (412

Re: music notation software for Linux

1999-07-22 Thread Will Lowe
> > Does anyone know of any decen music notation software for Linux??? I'm > > looking for something with a good GUI and that is easy to learn. Any > > suggestions are appreciated!!! There's rosegarden. It's buggy, but there is a debian package. http://www2.bath.ac.uk/~masjpf/rose.html

Re: [Fwd: Lynx Problems]

1999-07-22 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Doug Young wrote: > > Those who have been pondering my Lynx problems might care to comment on > this message I received from a guy who answered a post elsewhere. If he > is correct, it appears that I may have been trying to do something that > even experts would find difficult. > No. You are not

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

1999-07-22 Thread Michael Stenner
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 09:32:34AM +1000, Doug Young wrote: > I think I posted a response to this already, but if not here it is. > >From a newbie point of view, the actual root of the problem > faced by newbies in trying to come to grips with any unix > based operating system is NOT that there is

PGP

1999-07-22 Thread Aaron Faby
This may not be the appropriate place to ask, but does anyone know where I can get PGP Key? -- Aaron Faby [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator/Technical Support Yourlink, Inc.

Re: Partition table change

1999-07-22 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > It is a commercial product that will set you back around $70. (Sorry, I > know this is an alien concept to many Debian users. :-)) Does that concept '$' have something to with that hard currency called m$? I've heard that some people of the stone

Re: Partition table change

1999-07-22 Thread Keith G. Murphy
virtanen wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > > > That box of mine has got only debian. Will not let m$ and partition magic > > > in. > > > > > No problem. What he's referring to is a standalone boot disk that you > > can create (you'd have to have a Win95 system somewhere

RE: How to make work an Intel PRO/100+ PCI ethernet card

1999-07-22 Thread Tamas . GAIDOSCH
Ray, Halis, Thanks, it works now with eepro100. I had to change the BIOS settings. (Disabled the 'fancy' features.) Tamas -Original Message- From: Halis Osman Erkan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 12:43 PM To: Ray Subject: Re: How to make work an Intel PRO/100+ P

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-22 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Stephen Pitts wrote: > > > If you wish to start a new thread on the list, > PLEASE send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > DO NOT just reply to any old message in your mailbox. > If you do that, then the threading gets messed up, > and it doesn't display right in the archives, or > in threaded mail

Latest gnome debs for SLINK?

1999-07-22 Thread Rick Macdonald
Where can I find the latest slink gnome debs? The one I last used doesn't seem to be there any more: deb http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink slink main ...RickM...

Re: Setting up Debian with sound

1999-07-22 Thread Bill Leach
Someone has posted a sequence of steps to use the build a kernel and in looking them over they do appear correct however... Install the kernel build package called "kernel-package" (in slink it is debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/misc/kernel-package_6.05.deb for the PC). This package is THE w

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-22 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists > Date: Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 05:12:22PM -0400 > > In reply to:William T Wilson > > Quoting William T Wilson([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > > I just did an informal su

Re: Sparc IPX mouse issue

1999-07-22 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Mike Lieberman wrote: > > > Well, I am not using a Sparc, but: > > > > /dev/mouse is usually a symlink to wherever the mouse is actually > > installed /dev/ttyS0 for a COM1 mouse, /dev/psaux for a PS/2 style > > mouse, etc. THis is so that apps can look for the mouse in a central > > location wi

Re: dpkg problem

1999-07-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 15:27:37 +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > gzip: stdout: Broken pipe > dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 > dpkg: error processing libs/tcl7.6_7.6p2-7.deb (--install): > subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 A part of th

Re: Apache and user cgi scripts

1999-07-22 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi, On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 03:36:32PM +0200, Robert Varga wrote: > .htaccess in it contains: > > AddHandler cgi-script .cgi possibly you need to allow "Override" of the addhandler options in one of the global config files. Also, try adding (uncommenting) the AddHandler directive in one of th

dpkg problem

1999-07-22 Thread Matus fantomas Uhlar
HEllo, whatever I tried i am still getting this: work-root: dpkg -i libs/tcl7.6_7.6p2-7.deb (Reading database ... 25455 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking tcl7.6 (from libs/tcl7.6_7.6p2-7.deb) ... gzip: stdout: Broken pipe dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit sta

Re: Apache and user cgi scripts

1999-07-22 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Robert Varga wrote: > > > I have a problem with running cgi-scripts in user directories. > They simply don't run, giving back a 403 Forbidden error message. > However I can access files in there, without a problem. Have you enabled them in the access.conf file? Here is wha

RE: Web Counter

1999-07-22 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
It's a CGI written in C. You don't need anything other than a CGI-capable web server. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: > There is a package called wwwcount I believe. If I remember you need to be > running a server to use it - I'm not sure.

Re: Debian IRC

1999-07-22 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 22 Jul, Stephen Monroe wrote about "Debian IRC" > How does one (in Windows) get on the Debian IRC? > Any IRC client will do. Check http://winfiles.com/ for clients. Then connect to irc.debian.org and join channel #debian. Additional info is at http://www.debian.org/support#irc -- Brian

Re: Proxy server with Apache

1999-07-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On 22 Jul 1999, Ramin Motakef wrote: > > % squidclient http://www.netscape.com/ > test > > > You have to set permissions in /etc/squid.conf. Look for something > like: > http_access allow "some acl" > To get started: "http_access allow all" as last entry. OK, this test seems to work so far

Re: FreeCiv

1999-07-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 01:55:50PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > >> "Andreas" == Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andreas> Does anybody have an idea what to do or do I have to > Andreas> subscribe to the freeciv mailing list? > Either that, or file a bugreport on the Debian packag

RE: Sparc IPX mouse issue

1999-07-22 Thread Mike Lieberman
> Well, I am not using a Sparc, but: > > /dev/mouse is usually a symlink to wherever the mouse is actually > installed /dev/ttyS0 for a COM1 mouse, /dev/psaux for a PS/2 style > mouse, etc. THis is so that apps can look for the mouse in a central > location without having to worry about differenc

Re: [Fwd: Lynx Problems]

1999-07-22 Thread David Wright
Quoting Doug Young ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Those who have been pondering my Lynx problems might care to comment on > this message I received from a guy who answered a post elsewhere. If he > is correct, it appears that I may have been trying to do something that > even experts would find difficult.

Re: PCMCIA mudules wont compile with 2.2.11

1999-07-22 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Rune Linding Raun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hey yo bros! > > i cant compile my pcmcia-modules with the new kernel 2.2.11? > i got: pcmcia-cs 3.0.9-3 > pcmcia-source 3.0.12-2 > debian 2.1 (and dont wanna mesh with my libc/glibc in order to go > unstable in the p

RE: X server for crappy Packard Hell machine

1999-07-22 Thread Person, Roderick
My original linux box was a Packard Hell 486 SX 33 with 528k video board that ran X server - slow but ran. I even used Window Maker. I like punishment!! If you send me more details I try and help the best I can!! Rod > -Original Message- > From: Stuart Ballard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

XFree86-3.9.15 success and/or debs?

1999-07-22 Thread shadgun
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, Has anybody got any experieces/tips to get this running? Specifically on a potato system... I've done the make World, but haven't installed yet... Hoping someone will tell me everything will be alright ;-) Shad -BEGIN PGP SIGNAT

Re: shutdown -h now : don't power off

1999-07-22 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: > > Hi, > > I have : > Kernel2.2.10-1 + potato + ATX_box > All packages are the last. > > When i do a : > shutdown -h now > or > halt > my system is rebooted, but not power off. > > Wheras I set this option in the kernel. > > do someone have the same proble

Re: FW: Sparc IPX mouse issue

1999-07-22 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Mike Lieberman wrote: > > I'm an idiot. :-) A close reading of the dev shows... > > /dev/sunmouse ! See my previous message, but I would still stuggest ln -s /dev/sunmouse /dev/mouse and let the programs continue to use /dev/mouse... you'll probably hit fewer problems along the way. --Evan

distributed-net/proxy errors

1999-07-22 Thread Gerhard Kroder
i get some errors in logfile, what does it mean? Anything wrog with my setup? >Package: distributed-net >Version: 2.7106-3 >System Information >Debian Release: potato >Kernel Version: Linux stardust 2.2.10 #2 Wed Jul 14 15:41:43 CEST 1999 i686 running this with local proxy (Package: distributed-

Re: Proxy server with Apache

1999-07-22 Thread Ramin Motakef
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > % squidclient http://www.netscape.com/ > test > > Unfortunately I get a >HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden > message with each server I try, also with http://localhost/. To > make it clear, I append the file "test". > You have to set permissions in /

Re: Sparc IPX mouse issue

1999-07-22 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Mike Lieberman wrote: > > We are having problems getting Debian to see/find/use the Sun mouse > connected to our type 5 keyboard. > > gpmcongif wants to find /dev/mouse which doesn't exist. > > Xwindows won't run for the same reason. > > We know the mouse is working as we have Solaris on this b

Re: My terminal is in a weird state - SOLVED

1999-07-22 Thread David Wright
Quoting Mark Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > >Mark Wright wrote: > >> I just managed to completely hose my virtual terminal display. It seems > >> that non-alpha-numeric characters have been replaced with ascii > 127 > >> characters. I.e. the '-' becomes the upside down '!'. I've tried > 'reset

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